[RTC List] Proposed 101 Eureka-Arcata corridor update & RTC position.

[Aaron Antrim]

Hi all- Sorry I sent the last email with the wrong subject line.   
Also note that I would be happy to work to include some RTC  
perspective in the draft letter in a paragraph or a few sentences. - 
aaron

RTC list subscribers:

Allow me to introduce myself as an Arcata-based web-developer.  I  
just formed a company called Transit Information Solutions  
(www.transitinfosolutions.com) which just brought Google Transit to  
Humboldt County (www.hta.org) and is now attracting many new out-of- 
the-area clients.  I am also the outreach director for Green Wheels NEC.

Green Wheels is leading a coalition of groups who are calling for  
alternatives to the proposed Eureka-Arcata 101 Corridor Project.  The  
proposed project is bicycle, pedestrian, and transit unfriendly.   
 From my perspective as a young, enterprising information-technology  
consultant, the approach the project takes is one that neglects to  
consider an appropriate strategy for Humboldt County's economic,  
technological, and cultural development in the current era.  It does  
not make appropriate steps to offer any of the quality of life  
information entrepreneurs are attracted by, such as a multi-use  
trail.  Instead, it makes massive ($60 million+) investments in  
highway infrastructure on a scale which I do not believe are  
necessary or have an appropriate place in an information economy.   
Imagine what we could do by investing $62 million in projects that  
would improve quality of life for information entrepreneurs, pursued  
in a coordinated strategy with broadband investments.

I ask that the Redwood Technology Consortium consider letting me add  
their name as a signer on this letter (attached for you to read).  I,  
or someone from this list, can add in a paragraph or sentence on the  
tech community's perspective regarding this project.

You can learn more about the basis of our criticisms of the corridor  
project here:
http://www.green-wheels.org/node/212

More here: http://www.green-wheels.org/taxonomy/term/77

Thanks!



-- 
Aaron Antrim
aaron.antrim at green-wheels.org
707.633.4464
NEC Green Wheels
www.green-wheels.org


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